Jetty Cliff and Bastion Including Sloping Pedestrian Pathways
JETTY CLIFF AND BASTION INCLUDING SLOPING PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350362
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Jetty Cliff and Bastion Including Sloping Pedestrian Pathways
- Statutory Address:
- JETTY CLIFF AND BASTION INCLUDING SLOPING PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350362
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Jetty Cliff and Bastion Including Sloping Pedestrian Pathways
- Statutory Address 1:
- JETTY CLIFF AND BASTION INCLUDING SLOPING PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JETTY CLIFF AND BASTION INCLUDING SLOPING PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cromer
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 21923 42331
Details
CROMER
892/0/10012 Jetty Cliff and Bastion including slop
16-JUN-03 ing pedestrian pathways
GV II
Cliff retaining wall and sloping pedestrian pathways. 1894-5. By J.C. Melliss of London for the Cromer Protection Commissioners.
2 sloping paths lead from the top east and west ends of the massive cliff retaining wall towards a small platform about a third of the way down the cliff. From this platform a western path slopes down until it meets the promenade slightly to the west of the pier (q.v.) forecourt. The eastern path slopes down until it is about two thirds of the way down the cliff, where it levels out, reverses direction and angles down to the promenade close to the pier. All the cliff wall faces are covered by carefully laid coursed flint cobbles. Edges of paths have Staffordshire blue clay kerbs and iron railings.
HISTORY. This structure was built as part of a project to improve the approach to the promenade and jetty from the cliff top. The cliff wall was built out to provide more space in front of the Hotel de Paris (q.v.), which was enlarged and given a new facade in the same years. In turn they stood at the centre of the even larger project to improve the sea defences and build a pier in place of the jetty. In 1901 Douglass and Arnott, following the building of the new sea walls and pier, strengthened the cliff wall by the addition of a large bastion in the centre. This impressive wall and slopes form part of the very significant group of historic buildings and structures including the pier, the Hotel de Paris and the sea wall defences and promenade (q.v.).
REFERENCE. Cromer Preservation Soc., Historic Features on the Seafront, 2003.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Historic Features on the Seafront, (2003)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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